Helen Aboah
- CEO
- Atelier Jolie; former President, Donna Karan
Speaking This Year
Forty voices. Two days. One question.
What does the future look like when it is imagined by us?
The Latimer Futures Summit speaker list is built like a working session, not a stage show. Astronauts sit next to fund managers. Filmmakers sit next to research professors. The mix is the method. Every voice on this list has built something the rest of us already use, or is building something the rest of us will need.
AZA Allsop
- Music artist, neuroscientist, psychiatrist
- Asst. Professor, Yale Department of Psychiatry; Director, Center for Collective Healing, Howard University
Americus Reed
- Professor of Marketing, The Wharton School
Marques Anderson
- Founder & CEO
- Narrative World Modeling
Karla Ballard
- CEO
- HUMN.WORLD
Reggie Barnes
- Television, film, and theater actor
- Portrays Lewis Latimer (4 years)
Ruha Benjamin
- Professor of African American Studies
- Princeton University; author, *Imagination: A Manifesto*
Nichol Bradford
- Founder
- HumanTechWeek; tech investor and innovation thinker
Adrian Burrell
- Photographer, Installation & Experimental Media
Dario Calmese
- Founder, Institute of Black Imagination
Austin Clements
- Founder
- Slauson and Co ($100m fund)
Frank Cooper TBC
- Global CMO
- Visa
Jonathan Cropper
- Co-Founder & CEO
- Lewis Latimer Fellowship Program
Milton Curry
- Dean of the School of Architecture, University of Southern California
Willy Deese
- Deese College of Business, North Carolina A&T
- NC A&T; former President of Global Manufacturing, Merck
Marquesa Finch
- Founder & CEO
- Pyrium / Jet Capital
Rob Gordon
- Co-author
- Black VC Report
Claude Grunitsky
- Founder
- Massive Change Network; Life-Centered Design Icon; Professor of Practice, ASU
Dr Ben Harvey
- Founder
- Archetypal.ai; former Chief of Data Science & AI Operations, NSA; Research Professor, GW
Reginald Hudlin
- Iconic filmmaker
- *Black Panther* comics, *Black Godfather*, *Django Unchained*; Oscars Producer
Van Jones
- Founder
- Dream Machine Academy
Kecia Smith
- Dean of Deese College of Business, North Carolina A&T
Lans King
- Conceptual artist
- *This is my body (of work)*; NFC microchip biohack art
Randy Lewis
- Senior Partner
- Wilson Sonsini
Anna Adeola Makanju TBC
- VP of Global Affairs
- OpenAI
Ray McGuire TBC
- President
- Lazard; former Head of Global Investment Banking, Citi
Preston Mendenhall
- COO
- Rendeavour
Michael Nutter
- Former Mayor of Philadelphia
- David N. Dinkins Professor, Columbia University
Tade Oyerinde
- Founder & Chancellor
- Campus.edu
John Pasmore
- Founder & CEO
- Latimer.ai; Latimer Fellow
Karen Presley
- Director, Office of Research and Technology Applications
- National Security Agency
Soleil Randall
- Latimer Sound Designer / Composer
Shonda Rhimes TBC
- Founder
- Shondaland; producer of *Scandal*, *Bridgerton*
Rob Steven Williams
- Brand Strategist & Governance
- Founder & Inventor, Prism IO™
Carmichael Roberts
- Head of Investments
- Breakthrough Energy Ventures; Founder, Material Impact
Glenn Singleton
- Founder & CEO
- Courageous Conversation
Carmen Smith TBC
- SVP & Executive Creative Development
- Disney Parks, Experiences and Products
Lanny Smoot TBC
- Disney Research Fellow
- Disney Imagineering; Inventor Hall of Fame Inductee
Aarti Tandon
- Founder
- Smart Cities Expo
Khia White
- Afrofuturist AI Artist
- Independent
John Wilson
- Director, McGraw Leadership Center
- UPenn Graduate School of Education; former President, Morehouse College
Sylvia Zachary
- Founder
- Storyhouse